[Novalug] OT landline phone service, carriers other than Verizon?

Stephen Cicirelli scicirelli@gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 10:27:28 EST 2012


To clarify, required to provide wholesale rates on copper

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Stephen Cicirelli <scicirelli@gmail.com> wrote:
> They CAN, but the FCC said the don't have to, much as they said the
> ILEC doesn't have to share fiber lines.  This is supposed to promote
> the expansion of high speed network connectivity.  The ILEC is
> required to provide wholesale rates to CLECs but it doesn't mean the
> CLECs need to play.
>
> Frankly I don't see why they don't reverse their position on this (OK,
> lobbying is probably why) when it has been shown, in the overseas
> markets, that sharing the lines promotes greater penetration of high
> speed access the allowing exclusive rights.
>
> Just my two cents, and general irritation.
> Stephen
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Nick Danger <nick@hackermonkey.com> wrote:
>> On 01/03/2012 05:56 PM, How7 wrote:
>>> All this BS...
>>> Don't you miss the good old "Phone Company"?
>>> One stop shop that has everything... in military grade.
>>> I would probably not still be on dialup either.
>>
>> No, I don't miss the "Ma Bell" at all. One; I wouldn't be employed :-)
>> and Two: I doubt any ILEC would have rolled out *DSL service to anyone
>> when they could have charged you $$$ for ISDN service. And who knows
>> what they would charge for T1/T3 etc etc. Competition, at least it terms
>> of pure bandwidth per dollar, has so far been a good thing.
>>
>> What I would love to see is some real competition in cable the way there
>> is in your phone service. Sure the ILEC owns the wires but you can get
>> lots of competitive service over that same pair once it hits the Central
>> Office. I wonder why they can't do the same with CableTV?
>>
>> Nick
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